Dishonored: First 5 Minutes

When writing about Dishonored, should one go with the official spelling of the title, or correct it to Dishonoured? And what happens when you’ve stared at both words for far too long, with the consequence that they both look entirely made up?

An alternative is to make a video instead, where you don’t have to spell it out. Here’s me yabbering about the First 5 Minutes of Dishonored, and what it does to engage the player:

I was asked to give a talk comparing storytelling in games and literature by Access Creative College. This article is based on that talk. It’s easy to think that interactivity is the key difference between games Read more…

Heat Signature is fantastic at telling unauthored, emergent stories. Here’s a cool video all about its procedural generation of characters: And here’s a personal anecdote, generated entirely by a combination of the game, my actions Read more…